Calm Your Beans

Tired of trying to follow recipe cookbooks? Find yourself shouting “show me what that step looks like (insert name of celebrity chef here)!” – I know I am. Don’t have enough time to watch half-an-hour to an hour cooking shows? Jamie did his best with his 15 minute meals, but I’ve found a way that [...]

I don’t know about you, but I have been cold for most of the month of January. It might be the dark days and the shambolic weather, but it feels like a long time since I’ve felt toasty. One way I am going to try and make it a little warmer as we leave January [...]

Robert Burns, fondly known as Rabbie by his admirers, achieved great success as a poet during the second half of the 18th Century. He was a larger than life character, fond of good company and entertainment. It was only right that in 1801, five years after Burns’ death, nine men who knew him well met [...]

Christmas is coming, the season of goodwill to all men and traditionally the harbinger of a certain amount of festive gluttony. With Christmas Day typically running at over 6000 scale busting calories, lets take a look at how the pros manage it in the thrill packed world of competitive eating. Eating is like running in [...]

As far as I’m concerned, one of the best things about winter is the excuse to dig out my recipe book. The one with all my favourite recipes Mum taught me to make, and cooking up some good old fashioned winter warmers. You know the ones; cottage pie, stew and dumplings, toad in the hole, all [...]

Source: seriouseats.com via Liz on Pinterest   Pumpkin beers have built a strong seasonal tradition in the US in recent years; the craft beer revolution mixed with Halloween and Thanksgiving’s pumpkin pie to give something that frankly, tastes pretty much as that sounds. This website lists 363 different brews from American speciality brewers! Like many [...]

The World’s Biggest Coffee Morning has kicked off and is looking to raise money to help support those living with cancer. The Macmillan Cancer Support fundraiser is one of the biggest fundraising events in the UK and helped to raise over £10 million last year. This year they are hoping to do even better and [...]

The first two weeks of September are the Scottish Food and Drink Fortnight. Here is a look at some of the foods and drinks that make Scotland the Gastronomic powerhouse it is. ~ Starters~ There would be something distinctly fishy about any celebration of Scottish cuisine that did not mention sea food!  The Langoustine is [...]

  Calm Your Beans explored the streets of Manchester to bring you a guide to the very best places to go for a coffee in the city. It’s a common misconception that Brits can’t make a decent cup of coffee, but this guide just proves that wrong. We asked a few locals to recommend some of [...]

I love food, I love making it, I love looking at pretty pictures of it and most of all I love eating it. So it may come as no surprise to hear that I was glued to the TV last night for the start of The Great British Bake Off. What better way to find [...]